The Towson Literary Reading Series will be featuring memoirist Angela Balcita on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 5:30 p.m. in the Towson Room of the Cook Library. Angela Balcita is the author of Moonface: A True Romance (Harper Perennial, 2011), about how at age 17 she found herself in need of a kidney transplant?and her boyfriend offered his. Balcita received her MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Utne Reader, Iowa Review, and The Wilson Quarterly, among other publications. Her essays have been anthologized in Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction (Longman 2005) and a multicultural essay collection entitled Waking Up American: Growing Up Biculturally (Seal Press 2005).
For more information, contact Professor Michael Downs at {mdowns@towson.edu}.
